State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably DiPino v. Davis (1999), Benson v. State (2005)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 33 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Mapp v. Ohio · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Beck v. State of Ohio · Johnson v. United States · Gerstein v. Pugh
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A commissioner shall advise arrested persons of their constitutional rights, set bond or commit persons to jail in default of bond or release them on personal recognizance if circumstances warrant, and conduct investigations and inquiries into the circumstances of any matter presented to him in order to determine if probable cause exists for the issuance of a charging document, warrant, or criminal summons and, in general, perform all the functions of committing magistrates as exercised by the justices of the peace prior to July 5, 1971.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[In Gerstein v. Pugh, 420 U.S. 103, 121 , 95 S.Ct. 854, 866-67 , 43 L.Ed.2d 54 (1975)], [t]he Court found that an informal procedure is justified not only by the lesser consequence of a probable cause determination but also by the nature of the determination itself. It does not require the jurisdiction of conflicting evidence that a reasonable-doubt or even a preponderance standard demands, and credibility determinations are seldom crucial in deciding whether the evidence supports a reasonable belief in guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... [I]t is beyond question that Commissioners of the District Court of Maryland are judicial officers in name and in fact. The Maryland Rules so designate them. Rule 4-102(f)____ Their duties are those which may also be exercised by District Court judges. They are, in the true sense of the term, “judicial officers” and they perform judicial functions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.